Re: Developer conference

From: Jochen Kirstätter <mscc_at_kirstaetter.name>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:32:56 +0400

Hi SM,

Eventually, I might have missed it on the list of proposals...
What's your position regarding the event? Are you still interested in
active participation?

Please, would you mind to give me an update? Thanks in advance.

-- 
Kind regards, Jochen
Founder of Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community
http://www.meetup.com/MauritiusSoftwareCraftsmanshipCommunity/
On 09/02/2015 11:06, Jochen Kirstätter wrote:
> Hi SM,
>
> Thanks for the great conversation during the Ubuntu Jam.
>
> I clearly understand your concerns and concur with you in almost all
> points discussed.
> The Developers Conference should be taken as an opportunity for local
> IT businesses to show their skills and knowledge to a broader
> audience. As said, during the last couple of years, and most recently
> during the regular meetings of the MSCC it became eminent that
> software developers, system administrators as well as web and mobile
> designers are more and more asking for this kind of event.
>
> Quite frankly, there hasn't been anything comparable organised lately.
>
> The #DevConMru is hopefully a platform for the IT scene on the island,
> and in the Indian Ocean to meet, to exchange and to network with
> between like-minded people. It's about "Cyber Island" actually
> happening...
>
> As for training companies... Isn't it an interesting option to just do
> one or two sessions from their standard portfolio, and then just
> saying "Hey, that's just the tip of what we can teach or do for you!
> Get in touch with, nook a training." - There is a lot of business
> opportunity in this conference. Show your expertise and advertise your
> training courses. ;-)
>
> Regarding your proposal: Please go ahead.
> All information about submissions in on the conference website:
>
>     http://www.devconmru.org/#/sessions
>
> Please feel free to submit more than one topic - we are going to
> select by end of February.
>
>
> Kind regards, JoKi
>
>
> On 08/02/2015 08:54, S Moonesamy wrote:
>> Hi Jochen,
>>
>> We had a short conversation about the developer conference
>> yesterday.  I like the idea of a developer conference which is not
>> like a fancy fair.  It would be an interesting conference if you
>> could get several people with work experience to showcase some of the
>> work of their companies.  In Africa, most of the audience expect a
>> tutorial or the presenter only discusses about the positive side of
>> the work; it is probably the same in Mauritius.  Companies selling
>> training courses do not like it when someone offers free tutorials. 
>> Companies usually consider anything which is not positive as
>> confidential as it may raise concerns about whether they actually
>> have the skills to do their work correctly.
>>
>> As background information, the Mauritius Internet Users is an
>> informal group; it does not have any leaders.  The group can choose a
>> person as its representative on a specific issue or for an event.  I
>> can do a presentation about the group and give a brief overview of
>> some of the issues affecting the internet in Mauritius.  Last week,
>> we had an event where the topic of online shops in Mauritius was
>> mentioned ( http://hacklog.in/setting-up-online-shops-in-mauritius/
>> ).  I suggest finding someone to talk about that topic.
>>
>> There has been a lot of talk about two-factor authentication.  There
>> are known cases of security failures.  The topic might be too
>> complicated for the developer conference.
>>
>> Regards,
>> S. Moonesamy
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Kind regards, Jochen
>
> Founder of Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community
> http://www.meetup.com/MauritiusSoftwareCraftsmanshipCommunity/

Received on Fri Feb 27 2015 - 07:34:16 PST